On 17-18 June 2014, during the 2014 OSCE-wide Annual Police Experts Meeting, criminal justice experts from the OSCE participating States, executive structures and international partner organizations discussed legal provisions, mechanisms and tools for enhancing crossborder co-operation between law-enforcement and judicial authorities in the OSCE area, with the aim of enhancing the participating States’ joint responses to transnational threats. The two-day exchange of views, experiences and examples of good practices showed that while a solid legal foundation for international co-operation of criminal justice institutions has been established, and a number of regional and bilateral co-ordination and co-operation mechanisms have been created, the effective implementation of the legal provisions and the effective and efficient utilization of co-operation mechanisms and tools often prove to be challenging at the bilateral, regional and international levels. Participants shared their experiences and exchanged their views on various approaches to address these challenges and improve interagency responses to transnational criminal activities. Key findings and outcomes of the meeting were circulated to delegations under SEC.GAL/98/14 on 23 June 2014. On 15 August 2014, the Annual Report of the Secretary General on Police-Related Activities in 2013 was released in accordance with 2001 Ministerial Council Decision “on police-related activities”. The report provides a comprehensive overview of police-related programmes and projects implemented by the OSCE executive structures during 2013. In the field of general police development and reform, activities devoted to enhancing and consolidating community policing/police-public partnership projects continued to be most common among the executive structures (almost one third of all activities), particularly in South-Eastern Europe as well as in Armenia and Kyrgyzstan. Measures for enhancing police accountability, assistance in strategic planning of police reform and initiatives addressing domestic violence were the other three areas receiving most attention by the executive structures upon request from the interested pS. Training development, police-media relations, border and customs activities as well as public order management also received notable attention. With regard to the fight against organized crime, trafficking in human beings remained the most prominent field of work, with one-third of all project activities devoted to this topic. These projects were particularly in the focus of the field operations in Eastern Europe. On 8-12 September 2014, TNTD/SPMU participated in the training course “Preparing for the 2015 Serbian OSCE Chairmanship” for officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Serbia. The training was delivered at the Diplomatic Academy in Belgrade and organized by the Centre for OSCE Research (CORE) of the University of Hamburg. TNTD/SPMU delivered presentations regarding the Department’s activities. On 17 December 2014, following an invitation to all OSCE delegations, TNTD/SPMU presented some of its recent police-related activities as well as a number of planned activities for 2015. Presentations focused on three main topics: cybercrime, trafficking of illicit drugs and the draft pilot project on community policing in Ukraine. The aim of the briefing was to update delegations on TNTD/SPMU main activities in these areas and to introduce the draft pilot project in order to inform potential donors about it. Fifteen delegations attended the briefing, demonstrating their interest in the matter through a number of comments and questions. TNTD/SPMU underlined its strong commitment to continue working at the request of participating States on cybercrime and drug-related issues and asked for the delegations’ support to its planned extrabudgetary projects. Police Reform and Capacities Development On 29-30 January 2014, TNTD/SPMU participated in an expert workshop on the Handbook on Policing Public Assemblies to review the handbook that is currently being developed jointly by TNTD/SPMU and ODIHR. The workshop brought together about 15 international 24